A look back at the old outliners

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Sep 16, 2012 at 07:04 PM

Great resource; it would be good to know when the page was last updated, but I couldn’t find it.

Re Linux in particular (and at least some other *ix systems):

There’s also Notecase which is cross platform; it’s probably the most powerful GUI-based two-pane outliner for Linux. Another one is the programming-oriented Leo, based on Python, running in Windows and Linux. Same as OutWiker, introduced to this forum by its developer.

Along with Zim which is the outliner based on the text editor Vim, there’s EMACS org-mode. Both work in the console. I think that the latter has had more exposition here, courtesy of JB, including some online references.

The number is significant, but with the exception of the ones above, I am not sure all are actively developed; and, unfortunately, *ix software often requires a background in IT to actually set it up…

By the way, I just saw the Wikipedia entry for outliners http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outliner